Žiga Štamcar
Lead Developer at Madwise - performance marketing
Slovenia
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Top SchoolŽiga Štamcar is a Lead Developer from Slovenia with a decade of hands-on experience delivering web solutions, developer onboarding, and cross-functional technical ownership. He blends practical engineering (WordPress, back-end integrations and server infrastructure) with stakeholder-facing planning, having led company-wide projects for profitability measurement, consent management, and platform migrations. A pragmatic mentor, he shapes estimation, resource planning, and UX-conscious implementations while guiding in-house and outsourced teams. His open-source contributions include adding DNS-over-HTTPS support to the widely used dnspython toolkit and integrating PHP linters into the Super-Linter project, reflecting a taste for robust tooling and secure, testable code. With academic grounding in mathematics, computer science and social informatics, he pairs analytical rigor with attention to how teams and products operate in the real world.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of EducationMaster's degree, Social Informatics, Master's degree, Social Informatics at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences
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Github Skills (39)
github-ci10
python10
cil10
software-quality10
php10
dns10
linter10
configparser10
githubaction-workflow10
dns-over-https10
testing9
phpcs9
tls129
unit-testing9
dockers9
Programming languages (37)
Github contributions (5)
hassankhan/config
Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
Config is a lightweight configuration file loader that supports PHP, INI, XML, JSON, and YAML files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 31 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Žiga primarily focused on improving the configuration loading functionality of the project. Their contributions include adding support for parsing strings, integrating file and string parsers, and fixing PHP tag handling. They refactored the code by changing private functions to protected for easier extension and made stylistic improvements. The user also added a test case for cached keys and made several updates to existing tests.
xml-jsonconfigurationconfiguration-filexmlphp
super-linter/super-linter
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
Combination of multiple linters to run as a GitHub Action or standalone
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 19 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Žiga contributed significantly to integrating PHP linters (PHPCS, Psalm, and PHPStan) into the Super-Linter project. They added support for PHPCS and Psalm configuration files, enabling the linter to use project-specific rules. Furthermore, they added support for running tests for PHPCS and Psalm within the project's testing framework. They merged branches with the added support to incorporate these features.
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